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n. (context literary theory English) A conflict that is internal to a character.
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An internal conflict is the struggle occurring within a character's mind. Things such as things the character vies for, but can't quite reach. As opposed to external conflict, in which a character is grappling some force outside of him or herself, such as wars or a chain breaking off a bike, or not being able to get past a road block. The dilmma posed by an internal conflict is usually some ethical or emotional question. Indicators of internal conflict would be a character's hesitation or self-posing questions like "what was it I did wrong?". An internal conflict can also be a decision-making issue.
The term "internal conflict" is also widely used to describe a military conflict within a nation, such as a civil war. An internal conflict is a non-international conflict. It can be because of political, economic or religious causes.
Usage examples of "internal conflict".
With the Sakuntala once more fighting among themselves, the extremists' uprising against the Deyzara was dying of internal conflict and uncertainty.
There, its translucent carapace bulging and heaving with some internal conflict, was the largest-shelled monster Arilyn had yet seen, one large enough—.
The danger is not yet Great Britain, but rather an internal conflict thatthreatens the general peace.
Don't fight the wrong war was presumably a warning not to get involved in the island's internal conflict.
A society experiencing chronic internal conflict because of resource scarcities, rapid urbanization, pollution, and other “.
The only problem was, it fit the pattern of a country that was well-organized, one with people fiercely determined to defend themselves against interlopers, not a land ravaged by its own leaders and torn by internal conflict.
Feeding the poor, clearing the roadways-until the internal conflict between order and chaos built and destroyed your self-image.
That size created serious potential for internal conflict because, for any person living in a chiefdom, the vast majority of other people in the chiefdom were neither closely related by blood or marriage nor known by name.